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Meta-Breaker Dragon Hunter (Budget!)

  • Last updated Feb 10, 2020 (GA Week 3)
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  • 22 Minions
  • 6 Spells
  • 2 Weapons
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Dragon Hunter
  • Crafting Cost: 2400
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 2/10/2020 (GA Week 3)
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A very effective, fun and cheap deck for today's meta.  Does very well against the boogeymen Druid and Rogue.  Not so hot against flood decks, but you can't win them all.

Dragon Hunter deck with only good, effective cards.  It's an aggro deck at heart but can be played as a mid-range type deck.  Six evasive minions do really well against spell classes Mage Rogue and Priest.  Just keep smacking them in the face with your evasives and force them to deal with it.

The three strongest cards in the deck are the reason it exists : Stormhammer is incredibly powerful and should be kept in the mulligan even if you don't have a dragon.  You will likely draw one so it almost never runs out of charges.  To me, it's stronger than Eaglehorn Bow because you aren't forced to play low tempo secrets to keep it going.  You play high tempo, annoying dragons instead.  Plus it looks super cool with a spinning glow.  Rotnest Drake is probably broken.  Awesome stats and it deals with the dreaded Druid evasives and taunts.  Pretty awesome against Zilliax as well.  Finally Primordial Explorer, which can give you more Rotnests and is a pain to deal with in general because of it's poison.

The three evasives are your MVP minions.  Go face with them unless you can get a favorable trade or there's a must kill minion.  Good ol' Faerie Dragon is an absolute killer against Priest and Rogue early.  Coin her out if you can.  It'll chip in 6 damage before they can deal with it probably.  Coin Faerie into another Faerie is the dream.  Your opponent will be at 21 in 3 rounds.  Evasive Feywing is good, especially after you've equipped Stormhammer on 3.  Another annoying minion to deal with.  Then there's Evasive Wyrm.  Toss that bad boy out on six to deal with Emerald Explorer along w your hammer.

Other card choices : Firetree Witchdoctor never feels bad to play, and can get you some nice resources.  Scalerider is straight up better than SI:7 Agent, which is saying a lot considering it's been a staple in Rogue decks since forever.  Save it if you can for turn 5 Zilliax.  Big Ol' Whelp keeps your Stormhammer train going and draws a card.  Body isn't bad either. 

You've got a six card secret package : Phase Stalker Freezing Trap and Explosive Trap.  The secrets can be changed around to your liking.  I feel like Freezing is core in current meta, but you can try Snake or Misdirection instead of Explosive if you aren't getting many tokens.  Corrosive Breath is great for controlling the board and also getting in that last bit of damage to finish them off.  Dwarven Sharpshooter helps control board early.

The last two cards are tech that I've used various cards for.  Right now, I've had success with 2 Lifedrinker.  But YMMV and I can see Spellbreaker Unleash the Hounds Diving Gryphon Dragonbane etc.  

Mulligan for : Dwarven Sharpshooter Faerie Dragon Stormhammer and Primordial Explorer.  Toss all secrets, you don't want to draw and play them really.  Keep Phase Stalker on coin.

Give it a whirl and let me know how things go.  I am currently above 80% with the deck.